Author: halo@bungie.org

Bungie’s ‘Polish Complete’ milestone for Reach comes with a bunch of photos – swing by the Reach Developer Blog for a slideshow!(Louis Wu 19:29:45 UTC)

We got another update on Project Aftershock, a Halo mod for Crysis, from its developer, Warlord. (You can see older mentions here and here in our news archive.) Swing by Crymod’s forum for screenshots and a video!(Louis Wu 19:27:23 UTC)

93? Man… that woman’s been doing this for a WHILE. The latest round of Friday Caption Fun has some great captions for last week’s Elite Meets Ghost image… and then tosses one of the most captionable screenshots I’ve ever seen your way. Go read, then go play. (While you’re there, check out yesterday’s Twitter T&A…

Friday video fun at Bungie.net:H3AsiiM’s BetaLicious is a montage featuring gameplay from Kreger and AsiiM himself. Nice angles.Distraction is a montage from a trio of players – makes me sad I can’t jump on right now.betamaniaque created a Halo Reach community montage, using clips he found on Bungie.net. Lots of odd moments.Ain’t nothin’ wrong with…

HaLo2FrEeEk has spherized the final Halo: Reach Beta map, Overlook – the scrollable version is spectacular, though the sphere itself might not do the beauty of Overlook justice. There are plenty of options, though – so go see!(Louis Wu 15:57:55 UTC)

CinemaBlend has posted some Reach Beta Impressions – they’re noteworthy simply because they’re positive, from a site that rarely, if ever, has anything nice to say about the Halo franchise. (The article was written by a new games writer, so that might have something to do with it…) Give it a read!(Louis Wu 13:32:58 UTC)

Chris10023 sent word of a special episode of Halo 3 Fails – this one’s entitled ‘Halo Reach Fails’ and contains (surprise!) head-slapping moments from the Beta. I think every clip includes me…(Louis Wu 13:20:13 UTC)

A few days ago, we mentioned that Hedgemony was offering to photo-manipulate your Reach screenshot to make a cool Beta keepsake; a LOT of people took him up on it. His Tumblr collection now has 79 images in it – and some of them are EPIC. Go look!(Louis Wu 13:19:43 UTC)

IGN posted a list of their Top 100 Videogame Villains – Halo characters make the list 3 separate times. (If you don’t feel like paging through the entire collection, Morpheus has posted the direct links to each Halo-related page.) (Louis Wu 13:19:08 UTC)

TDSpiral was working on a Master Chief/Spartan sketch – kept going back to it. Finally posted a series of sketches – interesting development! (Louis Wu 13:18:04 UTC)

FyreWulff is back with a new pair of challenges – Firefight Friday is no more, go check out Fire Team Zulu. There are two options today – Postdelta Syndrome is a Firefight Challenge on Crater (two difficulties available), while 1800CALLBUCK is a Campaign Challenge on Tayari Plaza (also two difficulties). Go play! (Louis Wu 13:16:47…

Only one new piece for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – there HAD been three, but two didn’t make the (pretty low) minimum quality bar. If you’re submitting content, please – be sure to read the submission guidelines first. Thanks!(Louis Wu 13:15:16 UTC)

Marcus put up a post on the Bungie Developer Blog yesterday – this is the last week of ‘content polishing’, now they’re entering a hardcore bug-squashing phase. They’re working hard to make sure Reach is everything we want it to be, come fall!(Louis Wu 13:14:29 UTC)

We got word of a Halo: Reach Beta Trick Jumping vid from K R ii Z ii C, FACC x Ryahoe x, and Resix. (Yes, that’s far too many z’s and x’s in just three names.) Some cool stuff – not a lot of time to test it out for yourself, though!(Louis Wu 19:51:55 UTC)

Mjolnir Tactics has a whole passel of panoramas for your viewing pleasure – so get to viewing! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 19:27:20 UTC)

Ready to go back to Halo 3? This week’s Double XP Weekend Playlist is Living Dead. Go kill some zombies!(Louis Wu 19:20:42 UTC)

The Halo: Reach Beta is still going (I just finished a Headhunter game in 2nd place, with 22 skulls), but things are getting weird; if you play, you might experience some unpredictable stuff. Officially… it’s done. You play now, you’re playing at your own risk.(Louis Wu 19:18:38 UTC)

Just a single full-length vid available today in Bungie’s Comm Chatter: Killpie has a new Ten FTW episode – Halo: Reach Beta Kills. Lots of multikills.(Louis Wu 19:16:55 UTC)

Stone Temple Pilots’ Scott Weiland is the next celebrity up for a Halo ‘Game with Fame’ date – he’ll be online on Tuesday, June 1 to play Halo 3 with LIVE Gold members. Full details at Xbox.com.(Louis Wu 12:05:47 UTC)

Stone Temple Pilots’ Scott Weiland is the next celebrity up for a Halo ‘Game with Fame’ date – he’ll be online on Tuesday, June 1 to play Halo 3 with LIVE Gold members. Full details at Xbox.com.(Louis Wu 12:05:47 UTC)